Example sentences for: coffers

How can you use “coffers” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The GOP-led Congress, already having earmarked all the country's general fund surpluses for the next two fiscal years, will likely take anywhere from $8 billion to $30 billion from Social Security coffers.

  • That would have been all, folks, were Louis not a complete schmuck who capriciously drains the kingdom's coffers with foreign wars, starves a lot of smudgy faced extras (who hurl rotten fruit at his guards), and falls on whatever beauteous wench strikes his royal fancy.

  • The Democrats suggest it was a scheme for channeling foreign money into Republican coffers.

  • India's nuclear tests are Issue 1. Johnny Chung's confession that he deposited Chinese military funds into Democratic Party coffers takes Issue 2. Scrapping in the distance for Issue 3 status are Microsoft's antitrust problems, the Indonesia unrest, and the Israel-Palestine peace talks.

  • Congress imposed it in 1916, mainly motivated by Progressive Era concerns about the concentration of wealth in the coffers of a few families.


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